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Mccarter Theatre Center's a Christmas Carol Creative Team McCarter Theatre Center’s A Christmas Carol Creative Team DIRECTOR ....................................................................................... Adam Immerwahr COMPOSER ..................................................................................... Michael Friedman CHOREOGRAPHY ................................................................................... Lorin Latarro SET DESIGN ........................................................................................... Daniel Ostling COSTUME DESIGN ...................................................................................... Linda Cho LIGHTING DESIGN .................................................................................... Lap Chi Chu SOUND DESIGN ................................................................................... Darron L. West SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGN ................................................................ Jeremy Chernick WIG DESIGN .................................................................................. Carissa Thorlakson MUSIC DIRECTOR ........................................................................................ Cris Frisco ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR....................................................................... Jessica Bedford MOVEMENT CONSULTANT .......................................................... Samantha Reading CASTING DIRECTOR ............................................................................... James Calleri SUPERVISING STAGE MANAGER ............................................................ Cheryl Mintz 1 CAST OF CHARACTERS EBENEZER SCROOGE FRED, Scrooge’s Nephew LILY, Fred’s Wife SOLICITOR DAVID SOLICITOR MATTHEW MRS. DILBER, Scrooge’s Housekeeper OLD MARLEY CHRISTMAS PAST CHILD SCROOGE FAN, Scrooge’s Sister YOUNG MARLEY YOUNG SCROOGE MR. FEZZIWIG MRS. FEZZIWIG BELLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT BOB CRATCHIT GRACE CRATCHIT BELINDA CRATCHIT PETER CRATCHIT MARTHA CRATCHIT TINY TIM MISS KATE LADY CHAR LITTLE CHARLIE ARCHIE EMILIA IGNORANCE WANT CHRISTMAS FUTURE OLD JOE LAUNDRESS UNDERTAKER COMMUNITY ENSEMBLE CAROLERS BELL RINGERS DELIVERY BOY 2 ACT ONE The ENSEMBLE moves through the audience, ringing bells and letting everyone know that the performance is about to begin. Several ENSEMBLE members gather onstage and perform a Christmas carol. The audience is encouraged to sing along. Other ENSEMBLE members hang a banner that reads: “LONDON 1843” OPENING SONG: “IN DULCI JUBILO” THE PEOPLE OF LONDON IN DULCI JUBILO A TUNE FROM LONG AGO HEAR THE VOICES SINGING IN WIND AND RAIN AND SNOW NOW THE BELLS ARE RINGING AND SWINGING TO AND FRO ECHOING BELOW ECHOING BELOW IN DULCI JUBILO A TUNE FROM LONG AGO HEAR THE VOICES SINGING IN WIND AND RAIN AND SNOW NOW THE BELLS ARE RINGING AND SWINGING TO AND FRO ECHOING BELOW ECHOING BELOW And just as the song is about to finish, the banner is ripped away. SCROOGE is revealed. Everyone scatters in fear. SCROOGE Horrible screeching! Move on! Move on I say! How can anyone be expected to run a business during a riot! You should be doing something useful, I say – useful! A notion clearly none of you understand otherwise you’d be at work! SEGUE TO … SCENE 2: SCROOGE’S COUNTING HOUSE SCROOGE enters his Counting House. BOB CRATCHIT is hard at work at his desk. SCROOGE gives CRATCHIT his coat – and a stack of papers to tend to. 3 SCROOGE Cratchit! Bob Cratchit! Here’s another stack of correspondence for you to copy. And don't let's get sloppy just because it's the end of the working day. BOB CRATCHIT It's just that my hands are so cold. SCROOGE I don't pay for you to warm your hands. I pay for you to USE them. BOB CRATCHIT Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. FRED and LILY enter, full of the Christmas spirit. FRED Well, well, well! Christmas Eve, nearly seven o'clock, and where else would you be, Uncle Scrooge, but hard at work? SCROOGE What is it you want? FRED Only to introduce you to my new wife. Uncle Scrooge, my wife Lily. LILY (She extends her hand.) It's a pleasure to meet you. (But SCROOGE ignore her.) SCROOGE Yes, I'm sure it is. FRED And his trusted clerk, Bob Cratchit. BOB CRATCHIT Very nice to meet you. Congratulations to you both! LILY AND FRED Thank you. FRED Uncle, we wish you could have come to the wedding. LILY It really was quite lovely. 4 SCROOGE And much too expensive, I’m sure. LILY Your presence was missed. SCROOGE You mean my present was missed. FRED That too. LILY Fred! (Determined.) Therefore, because we missed you at the last family gathering, Uncle Scrooge, we'd like to invite you to Christmas dinner tomorrow. All the family will be there. SCROOGE Christmas! Bah! Humbug. FRED Christmas a humbug, Uncle? Surely you don't mean that. SCROOGE I do! Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? You're poor enough. FRED What right have you to be dismal? You're rich enough. FRED throws single piece of coal into the small stove. SCROOGE See here. What are you doing? Oh get away from there. Get away! FRED Don't be cross, Uncle. SCROOGE picks the coal out of the grate and burns his fingers. SCROOGE What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money. A time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer. What’s merry about that? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with a "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. 5 FRED Uncle! SCROOGE Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way. And I'll keep it in mine. FRED But you don't keep it. SCROOGE Let me leave it alone then. Much good has it ever done you. You're still as penniless as ever. FRED My dear Uncle Scrooge – there are many things that have made us happy, by which we have not profited, I dare say. Christmas is one of these. I always think of Christmas as a good time – a kind, charitable, pleasant time. It is the only time I know of in the year when we open our hearts freely to one another. And therefore, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in our pockets, I believe it HAS done us good and WILL do us good. And I say "God bless it!” BOB CRATCHIT applauds silently. SCROOGE Let me hear another sound out of YOU Cratchit, and you'll keep Christmas by losing your situation. BOB CRATCHIT Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. SCROOGE You're quite a powerful speaker, sir. I wonder you don’t go into politics. LILY Uncle, please. You have no reason to be cross with Fred. It was my idea to extend this invitation for you to dine with us tomorrow. I have heard Fred speak of you so often and so fondly that I felt there was no reason we should be strangers. SCROOGE Humbug! 6 FRED We've made our visit in the spirit of Christmas. And we shall keep our spirit to the last. So, a Merry Christmas, Bob Cratchit, to you and your family. BOB CRATCHIT Thank you, sir. Merry Christmas. SCROOGE Good evening. LILY And a Happy New Year. SCROOGE Good evening! FRED And, Uncle Scrooge – Merry Christmas! SCROOGE GOOD EVENING! FRED and LILY exit. The clock strikes seven. SCROOGE You keep close watch on the closing hour. You're not one to work a moment longer than you have to, are you? BOB CRATCHIT No sir. I mean yes, sir. SCROOGE You needn't worry. The working day's over. BOB CRATCHIT Yes, sir! Thank you, sir! (Carefully, CRATCHIT approaches SCROOGE’S desk.) My wages sir? SCROOGE Always first in line with your hand out. You'll want the whole day off tomorrow, I suppose. BOB CRATCHIT If it's quite convenient, sir. 7 SCROOGE No sir! It's NOT convenient. And it's not fair. If I was to dock you half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound. But you don't think ME ill-used when I pay a day's wages for no work. BOB CRATCHIT It's only once a year, sir. SCROOGE A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December. BOB CRATCHIT Yes, I'm sorry to cause such an inconvenience, sir, but it's a day with the family. They put their hearts into Christmas. SCROOGE And their hands into my pocket. My generosity has always been my weakness. I am generous to a fault, always giving, giving, giving! BOB CRATCHIT Thank you, sir. SCROOGE Be here all the earlier the next morning. BOB CRATCHIT Yes, sir. A Merry Christmas sir. SCROOGE And take your infernal Merry Christmas with you! BOB CRATCHIT Yes, sir! BOB CRATCHIT exits. SCROOGE There’s another fellow for you. My clerk. Makes fifteen shillings a week. Talking about a Merry Christmas. Bah humbug!! SEGUE TO … 8 SCENE: THE STREETS OF LONDON BOB CRATCHIT is greeted in front of SCROOGE’S Counting House by his sons, TINY TIM and PETER. TINY TIM Father! Father!! BOB CRATCHIT Tim! PETER Hello Father. BOB CRATCHIT Peter! You've come all this way? TINY TIM To surprise you. PETER We stopped and looked in the toy shop window. BOB CRATCHIT You did! TINY TIM There were toy soldiers on horses! PETER And a tin drum! TINY TIM And a crystal ball you could shake and make it snow. PETER And we bought them all. BOB CRATCHIT I should hope so. TINY TIM And they're being delivered right now. 9 BOB CRATCHIT Well then, we better hurry home before your mother faints in surprise. You're not feeling too tired, are you? TINY TIM No Father, not a bit. PETER He walked the entire way. BOB CRATCHIT Well then, what do you say – I've got a pocketful of shillings – a whole week's wages – how about we race Peter to the sweet shop. Winner gets a peppermint stick! PETER Bet you can't catch me! PETER runs off. CRATCHIT puts TINY TIM on his shoulder. TINY TIM Look, father, he's getting a head start. BOB CRATCHIT Well then, we'll just have to catch him. TINY TIM Peppermint stick! BOB CRATCHIT and TINY TIM chase after PETER as the two SOLICITORS enter. BOB CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM Merry Christmas! SOLICITORS DAVID AND MATTHEW Merry Christmas! SCROOGE comes out of the Counting House and locks the door.
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